HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

My thanksgiving has been definitely different than planned. I was supposed to go over to my brothers in Louisiana and spend the weekend. However I had problems with my band and a touch (possibly not really sure) of the flu so decided it was better to stay put so I now have 5 days of not having to be anywhere I don't want to be! :) Very few people know I even stayed in town and those who do, though they offer several options of things to do, are being kind enough to let me just sit tight if that is what I desire.
So yesterday I bought two books I have been wanting to read with the intent of enjoying them this weekend. One is Dean Kountz's Forever Odd. I love Dean Kountz novels. Some of them may get a bit freaky but they are never really scary and he doesn't use a lot of bad language and there is practically no gratuitous sex, actually I think that could really be there is no sex scenes at all. The other book was Dan Brown's Angels & Demons which is the first one Robert Langdon appears in and since I loved The De Vinci Code movie and want to read it I thought I would start with the first novel he appears in. I read about 100 pages last night and then devoured the remaining 600 or so this morning. It is an awesome book! But since I finished the long book today I guess I will have to wait to read the shorter book till Saturday so they last me the weekend.But it felt so good to just sit and read no guilt cuz I should be doing something else or meeting someone somewhere. Granted I needed to do laundry and I do have a to do list for the house this weekend BUT the very first thing on that list is RELAX and I think I did that just fine today! :)
After finishing the book I called one of my friends, one who for some unknown reason a code name for just eludes me, who had invited me to dinner with her sister and got directions there figured I needed some socialization today. Dinner was fun and delicious. I am very glad I can report on the food because the band troubles I was having caused me to not be getting anything to stay down so I had to go in and get more of my fill removed yesterday. I had evidently Saturday gotten something "stuck" and when I got it to come back up it caused swelling and by Tuesday I had thrown up so much I was unable to get anything to get down and stay down at all. So I went back in to see my surgeon on Wednesday and he removed a little bit more but when I couldn't drink all the water and get it to stay down he removed more and actually put at less of a fill than what I had when I went in and got the fill 10 days ago. I was at 3.1 then he added .5 and then had to remove .2 that same day putting my at 3.4. On Wednesday he removed .2 and then another .2 putting me at 3. But I am OK with that for the next three weeks till I go in for my regularly scheduled visit and he will put some back in again. It felt sooooo good to drink and have it go down and stay down. I don't know how to explain the feeling I get when something isn't going down properly. With liquids it is like an air bubble right at the top of the sternum it hurts and I can understand why babies cry when the have gas and need to burp. With food it is very similar but not entirely the same a little more intense but not as sharp of pain. On the plus side of this experience is the fact that I lost 12 pounds in 10 days. Of course the trick now that I can eat again is going to be keeping that off and maybe losing a couple more before my next visit on the 13th. My surgeon called my a poster girl for the band. I now need to find a good picture of me pre-surgery for him the one he took was after I had already lost 55 pounds. Oh btw that weight loss brings my since surgery loss up to 101 lbs and from my high to 115 lbs lost!!!!!! In ten months that is just incrediable!
I tried to add some pizazz with color to this but it would let me :( so Maybe I can do it later.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.